As we continue with the study of Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline, he points out that every discipline has its corresponding freedom. In fact, the purpose of the Disciplines is freedom. Our aim is the freedom, not the Discipline. The moment we make the Discipline our central focus, we turn it into law and lose the corresponding freedom.
The liberation is the end; the Disciplines are merely the means.
What freedom corresponds to submission? It is the ability to lay down the terrible burden of always needing to get our own way. The obsession to demand that things go the way we want them to go is one of the greatest bondages in human society today.
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